Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Purely Joyful Movie!

I wanted to but couldn't!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

USA 1954 English (Colour); Musical (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer); 102 minutes (U certificate)Crew includes: Stanley Donen (Director); Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley (Screenwriters, adapting Short Story "The Sobbin' Women" by Stephen Vincent Benét); Jack Cummings (Producer)Cast includes: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall, Howard Petrie, Virginia Gibson, Ian WolfeAcademy Award: Scoring of a Musical; Golden Globe Award: Most Promising Newcomer (Richards)After the eldest (Keel) brings home a wife (Powell), his six bedraggled brothers aim to get themselves similarly hard-working and attractive brides by means of a mass kidnapping.Made in the 1950s, set in the 1850s and unsurprisingly sexist (women treated as objects and/or possessions of their menfolk), with some fine singing and acrobatic dancing.

Howard Keel plays Adam Pontipee, he goes out to get him a wife, He gets one, it is so refreshing to see a perfect musical centered around men behaving like men, dancing fighting and at the end steal 6 girls to life with his brothers in the mountains. Their fathers and brothers chase the young men but Adam and his Brs organized an avalanche to close of the valley for the winter. When spring arrived, the girls did not want to go back and instead were forced to get married to the Brs with guns held by the girl's Fathers. Very Hilarious, really worth seeing it. I rate it 8/10. At the end they lived happily ever after. If you have not seen this version, go see it, it is truly worth watching.

Every song in this is a winner! Even my little granddaughters could be heard singing them as they play: "Bless Your Beautiful Hide," "Lonesome Polecat," "Goin' Courtin'," and "Sobbin' Women." They're all great songs...and the choreography is amazing--from the battle of the dancers at the barn raising to the lonely, melancholy wood-cutting.The story is wonderful, too. Milly experiences love-at-first-sight, and we suspect that Adam does too. He may not have, though--or he may just be stubborn. Either way, until the end, there always some tension between the two. The other six brothers (all handsome red-heads) also want brides; but they're country boys and may not be slick enough to catch any. Milly tries to help them, but Adam messes things up.The story is based upon the short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. In the short story, however, it's Milly who wants the boys to catch wives because it's working her to death, caring for all of these men by herself. The Millie in the book isn't as civilized as the Millie from Hollywood! The short story is more comedic, but both stories are fun.

I see complaints of this wonderful movie that it is sexist, etc. What fun. Have the complainers never read the Steven Vincent Benet original? In the original story the whole idea of the abduction was Millie's. She came up with the idea to abduct the town's girls so that she might have some help out there. In the film Millie is the good guy and Howard Keel the villain. I am told that I must fill ten lines with prose to be published, so I apologize to readers for my having to ramble on. Who cannot fall to fall in love with Jane Powell as I did in 1954. I am still in love with her in 2015. My brother-in -law was able to allow me to see this film once again. I owe him for the privilege. I hope equally that all might see this wonderful film.